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Thanks Ryan for writing about SearchWith but allow me to clarify a few things.

1. The Import Button does not need to clicked when adding an engine manually. It is used for importing search plugins from a plugins directory. During first run after installation, SearchWith searches for default directory locations and installs the plugins for you but when you have other plugin-directories or if you're running it from Thunderbird, you may need to specify the directories under the General tab.
So, the manual adding and editing of search engines is an alternative way to importing engines that already appear in your search bar.

2. SearchWith is not just trying to provide the already installed search engines from the search bar to the context menu like Context Search and ConQuery do. It also introduces new engines for different types of content (ordinary web users may not have a clue what delicious or flickr search does) and provide an advanced search experience, like selecting multiple engines to search with and grouping engines by content type. So, I believe SearchWith should be compared to HyperWords, Blue Organizer, TermBlaster and the like although these extensions do more than just search.

3. At the moment one engine can only belong to one service but one service can contain multiple engines.